{"id":103841,"date":"2024-09-03T00:00:36","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T23:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=103841"},"modified":"2024-09-06T13:39:53","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T12:39:53","slug":"album-review-korrosive-katastrophic-creation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-korrosive-katastrophic-creation\/","title":{"rendered":"KORROSIVE – Katastrophic Creation (2024) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

KORROSIVE
Katastrophic Creation<\/strong><\/span>
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Nine years after forming, Canadian thrashers Korrosive releases its third full-length album, Katastrophic Creation<\/em>. Rad Zarei (vocals) is the only remaining original member and he is joined on this latest release by Derek Solomos (guitar), Jack Neila (guitar and bass) and Kaveh Afshar (drums), while Nick Radlovic (bass) is the latest recruit although he doesn\u2019t appear on the album.<\/p>\n

It was Korrosive\u2019s 2018 demo Destroyed!<\/em> which caught my attention and although I\u2019ve not necessarily been loyal in following the band I was impressed by their 2022 album Toxic Apokalypse<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Katastrophic Creation<\/em> lines up with eight tracks, a handful of which feel overlong, but even so there\u2019s no denying the potency as \u2018In The Name Of Destruction\u2019 rips your ears off to Zarei\u2019s angry prose; \u201cThe final pieces needed for another fucking war… mangled bodies scattered in the fog… tortured voices, symphonic screams….\u201d<\/em>. It\u2019s serious and deadly thrash, in fact I\u2019d go as far to say that Korrosive is one of the most hostile acts out there, grinding together a violent mix of, say, Krisiun and classic Kreator but with crisp modern dynamics.<\/p>\n

A majority of the songs are battering rams which throttle you within minutes, like \u2018Kataclismo Inminente\u2019 and \u2018Ashes From Atomic Dust\u2019, but there are streaks of stunning serrated melody too, and I refer to the latter with its swirling solo work. The steady barrages are immense juggernaut structures bristling with percussion that acts as a gnashing machine finding its hellish rhythm. Everywhere you lend an ear is a landscape of snarling steel to behold, a metallic frenzy of hideous vocal sneers and ruthless riffs.<\/p>\n

The whole look and feel of this album suggests something intricate and cosmic, and yet when you hear tracks like \u2018Under A Vicious Sky\u2019 and \u2018Maelstrom\u2019 you realise just how straightforward the mechanics are here with no unnecessary frills or deviations just intense bludgeoning with an overtly metallic edge.<\/p>\n

The sharpness and ice cold coating means that Korrosive is not thrash metal to happily nod along to. Instead, the sound harbours a venomous but not quite angular menace, the end result being a destructive and somewhat mechanical cauldron of glistening yet unfriendly fury and searing pistons of poison. Expect severe ear lacerations.<\/p>\n

Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KORROSIVEKatastrophic Creation CDN (2024)Rating: 7.5\/10 Nine years after forming, Canadian thrashers Korrosive releases its third full-length album, Katastrophic Creation. Rad Zarei (vocals) is the only remaining original member and he is joined on this latest release by Derek Solomos (guitar), Jack Neila (guitar and bass) and Kaveh Afshar (drums), while Nick Radlovic (bass) is the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5774],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-korrosive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103841"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103845,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103841\/revisions\/103845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}